Zachary C. Brown
Scholar

Zachary C. Brown

Google Scholar ID: R8qiVdwAAAAJ
PhD Candidate, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
Machine LearningSignal and Information ProcessingNatural Language Processing
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
40
 
H-index
3
 
i10-index
2
 
Publications
5
 
Co-authors
8
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Text Classifications Learned from Language Model Hidden Layers (Proceedings of the IEEE 19th World Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics, January 2021)
  • - Towards Neural Programming Interfaces (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2020)
  • - BYU-EVE: Mixed Initiative Dialog via Structured Knowledge Graph Traversal and Conversational Scaffolding (Amazon Alexa Prize Proceedings, November 2018)
  • - Harvesting Common-Sense Navigational Knowledge for Robotics from Uncurated Text Corpora (1st Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2017)
Research Experience
  • - NSF GRFP Fellow & PhD Candidate in Electrical & Computer Engineering under Dr. David Carlson at Duke University (current)
  • - ETI Intern/Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2022)
  • - Data Engineering Intern, Capital One (2019, 2020) - automated natural language processing (Pytorch, AWS, Tensorflow)
  • - Research Assistant, DRAGN Labs (2019-2020) - controlable text generation
  • - Research Assistant, Perception Control and Cognition Lab (2017-2020) - Common-sense knowledge extraction, Knowledge representation, Digital pathology
Education
  • - MS Electrical Engineering, Duke University (2023)
  • - BS Applied Computational Mathematics, BYU (2020)
Background
  • NSF GRFP Fellow & PhD Candidate in Electrical & Computer Engineering under Dr. David Carlson at Duke University. My current work is focused on jointly modeling high and low-frequency signals (neuronal spike traces and local field potentials).
Miscellany
  • Personal interests not mentioned